Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 37)

April 27, 2006 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 37
Establish conventions
Establish conventions
The following conventions are recommended to make your NewsBrowse system
easier to work on and understand. Refer to these sections as necessary as you
configure your system.
Machine naming convention
Choose a root name (based on the site, etc.) and use the following convention for
naming machines.
If you use a UIM in your system, make sure you follow the UIM naming convention.
MDI and Encoder logical names convention
As you configure your NewsBrowse system you must create and enter logical names
for the various software components (services) that provide NewsBrowse
functionality. These logical names provide a mapping of the functionality of the
standard NewsBrowse services to the specific machines in your particular system. For
this reason you should take care to create logical names that are easy to identify and
interpret as they appear in the various configuration pages.
It is especially important that you distinguish between the logical name of a software
component and the hostname of the machine to which the software component relates.
In the conventions suggested in this manual, machine names are lower case and
logical names are upper case to make this distinction.
Machine type Name
MediaFrame machines
NewsBrowse server root-nb-svr
Managed Device Interface (MDI) Server root-nb-mdi
Proxy machines
Advanced Encoder root-nb-adv-1…n
SmartBin Encoder root-nb-sbe-1…n
Network Attached Storage (NAS) a
a. Some NAS devices have restricted characters for naming. For example, the Fastora NAS can’t have
underscores, while the Ciprico NAS can’t have dashes.
root-nb-nas-1…n
Ingest machines
K2 system k2-1…n
Stand-alone Profile Media Server pvs-1…n
Open SAN Profile Media Server mpvs-1…n
M-Series iVDR ivdr-1…n
Legacy machines
Live monitor encoder root-nb-live-1…n
Single-channel encoder root-nb-enc-1…n
Router Gateway root-nb-rtr